RE: Dinosaur Revolution Review

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Augusto Haro
>
> Good post, Mickey. I also disliked the anthropomorphic 
> behaviour of the dinosaurs. Pieces of humour as the allosaur 
> bitting off the small coelurosaur's head as Carney did with 
> Parry also seem improbable, for better would be for the 
> allosaur to eat the entire coelurosaur, or carry the body to 
> its nest.

That is the next scene (the one after the credits).

On the other hand (er, head), the question was raised early on (and one for 
which I had no good answer): how widely distrubted is
the trait of running around like a chicken when your head is cut off?

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